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0 pointsLudwigNagasena4y ago0 comments

Well, it is pretty hard to make something in a language when it is a dialect continuum and not a standardized variety that is forced onto the whole population through the education system and media.

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vkazanov4y ago

Not really relevant to the topic in question but... Isn't this how most languages begin?

First you have a continuum of language dialects, then one of them dominates for political reasons, then it gets codified, then enforced onto everybody through centralised education. Dialects not under direct unified political control become related but separate languages... And so on.

regularfry4y ago

Yes, but I think the point is that trying to record a standardised version of something that has not yet been codified through that process is going to inevitably be somewhat approximate at best.

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vkazanov4y ago

Not really relevant to the topic in question but... Isn't this how most languages begin?

regularfry4y ago

Yes, but I think the point is that trying to record a standardised version of something that has not yet been codified through that process is going to inevitably be somewhat approximate at best.

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0 pointsLudwigNagasena4y ago0 comments

Well, it is pretty hard to make something in a language when it is a dialect continuum and not a standardized variety that is forced onto the whole population through the education system and media.